See What's New In Finale 2014

Own the Future

To notate music is to look forward – to the performance, and beyond.

Like you, Finale 2014 looks forward, with many technological investments to Finale’s core. These include improved Apple® OS X® support, a new audio engine, and a completely rewritten file format, providing you with backward and forward compatibility, as well as more flexibility for the future.

Finale 2014 also offers workflow improvements to help you complete more in less time, with more breathtaking Garritan® sounds, and notation enhancements designed to produce perfect results without editing.

While others take music notation software development for granted, Finale is doubling down to provide you and your music a clear path to tomorrow.

Finale 2014 offers you new tools

From a clean efficient workspace, to powerful new capabilities, Finale 2014 offers new tools to create your music.

At first glance you’ll notice Finale’s updated icons, backgrounds, and textures. Beneath the surface improved Apple OS X support provides new features today and a foundation for the future. But this is just a start.

Enhancements in Linked Parts give you more control over items you want to look one way in your score, and another in your parts. Plus SmartShapes, including hairpins and trills, just got a whole lot smarter.

When it’s time to share your music, Finale 2014 offers EPUB support (offering instant publishing for e-book platforms like iBook for the iPad) and – for the first time ever – a simple way to share files, back and forth, with users of an earlier version of Finale.

First there was pen and ink. Then came Finale. Now there’s Finale 2014.

A totally rewritten FILE FORMAT, which not only makes it possible to share files back and forth with the previous version of Finale, but also offers much more flexibility for the future.

A new AUDIO ENGINE boasting rock solid playback performance.

Fully integrated HUMAN PLAYBACK with centralized preference control.

Finale 2014 for Macintosh has been updated with improved Apple OS X support, producing a new look and time-saving workflow features like pinch zoom and native full screen support.

EPUB SUPPORT – a new standard in digital publishing, EPUB offers instant publishing for e-book platforms like iBooks for the iPad.

While others take development for granted, Finale’s doubling down to provide you and your music a clear path to tomorrow.

New Garritan Sounds

In December 2012, MakeMusic purchased the Garritan Corporation, ensuring that the relationship between Finale and the Garritan sounds you rely upon is secure into the future.

Listen to these orchestral excerpts showcasing the Garritan Instrument sounds included in Finale:

Pictures at an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky

Capriccio Espagnole - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Symphony #9 - Antonin Dvorak

Brandenburg Concerto #3 - Johann Sebastian Bach

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For Finale 2014, we’ve again added dozens of breathtaking new instruments to the robust Garritan library already included with previous versions of Finale. From Alto Flute to Tubular Bells, these new additions were selected from several Garritan libraries: Personal Orchestra, Jazz & Big Band, World, and the amazing new Instant Orchestra. View a list of all included Garritan sounds.

These short excerpts feature ONLY sounds new to Finale 2014 (except for the drums and bass in the Chopin):

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Finale 2014 also includes enhanced built-in support for all Garritan Libraries, so when you install an additional library ALL your instruments immediately appear in Finale’s Setup Wizard.